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I can remember eagerly anticipating Hurricane Gloria as a kid back in the 1980s. It was kind of a disappointment, but that's probably because I was under the impression the ocean would crest at the stoop of my Brooklyn home.

[1] I distinctly remember Hurricane David for some reason, I was still very young when ha came through and it was the first hurricane I felt anticipation and anxiousness for. Gloria was something else; very windy but not quite as bad as it was made out to be. K104 in Poughkeepsie played "Gloria" by Laura Branigan as commercial FM radio stations do, mocking nature and potential disasters natural or otherwise...

But the hurricanes had absolutely nothing on the snowstorms. Snowball I and II kicked the collective butts of the Mid-Hudson Valley communities. Some of us were without power for nearly a month.

All I can say is, Thank Goodness I am not I am no longer in that lousy-ass basement apartment in the Bronx; the one that got flooded at least SIX TIMES during heavy rains or because of faulty plumbing...